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The Urban Condition People and Policy in the MetropolisAuthor:Leonard J. Duhl

In this unusually comprehensive work, the authors scrutinize in detail cultural needs, taxation, education, renewal planning, economics, crime and delinquency, physical equipment, poverty, transportation, engineering, health provisions and the population's mental health - always examining the ways in which judgments made in one area affect all o... more »ther areas, realizing that the problems of the "megalopolis" cannot be fragmented, that they lie in the size, complexity and intricate relationships between a number of forces.

But the authors go beyond analysis: they offer carefully designed blueprints for transforming knowledge and good intentions into social policy and action, and argue that any future solutions must involve a new form of planning that takes into consideration the human factor and the interrelationships between the physical, social and psychological environments.« less